Sudan: The News Dispatch with Omolo Beste

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The News Dispatch with Omolo Beste

From: omolo.ouko
NEWS IN IMAGES

KURON PEACE VILLAGE
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2012

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This is to inform the Regional News subscribers that from today (Nov. 26, 2012) the news trend will be different. Instead it will be on news dispatch with Omolo Beste, mainly focusing on news in images.

I begin today with the news from Holy Trinity Peace Village Kuron (HTPVK) in South Sudan. Kuron Peace Village is a widely recognized model in successful peace building and in “taking the town to the people.” Click here to read more about the village-

Kuron Peace Village page

The village was founded by Torit Catholic Diocese Bishop Emeritus Paride Taban shortly after his retirement in 2004. He is working with the people of Kuron to build a peace village and help them recover from the long civil war and learn to live in peace with each other.

The people in Kuron area will be from the Toposa, the Jie, the Nyangatom, the Kachipo and other communities in the surrounding areas. The pilot project is expected to create a foundation for lasting peace among the Sudanese communities.

Kuron Demonstration Farm Project aims at introducing animal traction technology to train the community to increase the acreage of land under cultivation using animal traction instead of the traditional hoes which have limited the people to farming small pieces of land.

Traditionally, livestock is kept for prestige and marriages, which are some of the main reasons why youth are so much involved in raiding neighbouring communities. Youth have no other activities.

The Toposa people number about 700, 00 to 750,000. They are found in Kapoeta County, east bank Equatoria. Their most important settlements and villages are Kapoeta, Riwoto, Narus, Kauto, Naita, Mogos, Lamurnyang and Karukomuge.

The Toposa are part of a larger group known as the Ateker cluster, which in the Sudan include the Toposa, Nyangatom and Jiye; The Turkana across the borders in Kenya; the Jie, Dodoth and Karamojong in Uganda. The Toposa people believe that they originated and moved away from the Losolia Mountains in Uganda due to severe drought that had killed both people and animals.

Toposa tradition has it that they are descendants of Lopita or the Paring’a who shared common ancestry with the Murle, Turkana and Karamojong. According to the Toposa the story runs as such: They were moving in waves.

The first people to arrive Losolia cheated the other groups who arrived late and found that the first group had taken the meat leaving only soup. This precipitated the split and separation.

Fr Joachim Omolo Ouko, AJ
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